House bill · 104th Congress · Did not become law
Local Empowerment and Flexibility Act of 1996
Sponsor: Rep. Christopher Shays R-CTWhere it went
- IntroducedJul 20, 1995
- Committee actionApr 24, 1996
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 26, 1996 — Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 460.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 2086.
- Committee reportCongress.gov lists 1 committee report for this bill: H. Rept. 104-847 ↗. The Congress.gov committee record lists a “Reported By” entry for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on September 26, 1996.Source: Congress.gov, reported September 26, 1996 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- committeeReports
- Report API records
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/committee-report/104/HRPT/847
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 2086, 104th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/104/hr/2086
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- April 7, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 29, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
6 cosponsors — 6 Republicans
0 of 6 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Douglas Bereuter (R-NE), Peter Blute (R-MA), Ken Calvert (R-CA), William Clinger (R-PA), Randy Cunningham (R-CA), Thomas Davis (R-VA).
More from the sponsor
Other 104th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Christopher Shays.
- H.R. 1 (104th) Congressional Accountability Act of 1995
- H.Con.Res. 104 (104th) Providing for an adjournment of the two Houses.
- H.Con.Res. 169 (104th) Expressing the sense of the Congress that the 1996 annual report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund be…
- H.R. 2008 (104th) To repeal the quota and price support programs for peanuts.
- H.R. 2141 (104th) To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to provide for a reduction in the limitation amount for multicandidate political…
- H.R. 3609 (104th) To authorize appropriations for the payment of United States arrearages in assessed contributions to the United Nations for prior years…
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 29, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.